Project Assist reaches Senapati
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 03 2011:
Senapati district committee of the National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH) today distributed assistance to the children of Senapati who are the beneficiaries of project "Assist" .
Project Assist is a scheme implemented by the National Foundation for Communal Harmony, an autonomous organization under the Union ministry of Home Affairs.
It was set up in 1992 with the main objective of providing assistance to orphaned and destitute children due to communal disturbances.
The organization offers physical and psychological rehabilitation of children who are victims of communal, caste, ethnic and terrorist violence.
Such children are provided with care, education and training.
It also undertakes activities for promoting communal harmony and national integration which includes grant of scholarships, fellowships and studies.
Senapati DC, Nidhi Kesharwani was chief guest of the function held at Lodestar Public School campus at Laipham Khunou.
Anei Lunkim, secretary of the school presided over the function and Mang Kipgen, member of Sardar Hills ADC was guest of honour.
Kesharwani informed that Senapati district is planning to start a programme for counseling children who are victims of ethnic/communal harmony/terrorist violence.
The DC further appealed to the committee dealing with the project to be sincere in assisting the children for the sake of their future.
Recalling that the NFCH sponsored project Assist was introduced for the first time in 2002 in the state, nodal officer of the project L Thangkholun Kuki said that only 24 children have got assistance from the project in the district.
The project has so far covered 872 children.
They have been given financial assistance at the rate of ' 750 per month for their education, physical and physiological rehabilitation, he asserted.
He added that the assistance is received from the foundation as corresponding cheques were usually issued to the child/living mothers by the DC who is also the chairman of the district NFCH committee.
Out of the 872 children, 361 children are now out of the scheme having attained the age of 18 years.
The committee has 511 live cases in the district.
Assistance has been given to 416 children and only 95 cases are pending, he added.